The African Union's human rights court has rejected petitions by former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former prime minister Guillaume Soro to overturn bans on their running in the country's ...

The 36th Organization of African Unity summit officially closed Wednesday in Lome shortly before midday, with African leaders signing a plan for continental union that foresees a supreme body and ...

In 2025, the African Union (AU), which succeeded the OAU, has embraced the theme "Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations," signalling a powerful commitment to ...

Delegates from across the African continent gathered in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Thursday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Organization of African Unity, the ...

From this tentative beginning, the OAU evolved rapidly in seven years to the point of its own replacement in 2000 by the African Union (AU). At its adoption in 1963, the founding Charter of the ...

The African Union is often criticised as an institution without real power, but for political analysts, the simple fact that it exists is a huge achievement. The Organisation of African Unity (OAU ...

The African Union (AU) is one of UNHCR’s most important partners and a leader in global efforts to resolve forced displacement, which causes suffering for tens of millions of people. Forcible ...

The controversial project for an African Union envisages a number of new institutions which would in time replace those of the OAU.

This commentary describes five outcomes from the African Union’s first summit since being admitted into the G20.

Origins: The Organization of African Unity (OAU) The precursor to the African Union was the Organization of African Unity (OAU), established on May 25, 1963, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Forced displacement has always been high on the agenda of the AU, and the Organization for African Unity (OAU) that preceded it. Under their watch, landmark treaties on refugees and on internal ...